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The Washington Post Embarrasses Itself Trying to Embarrass Me

The Washington Post Embarrasses Itself Trying to Embarrass Me

How can you trust regime media reporters to report anything right when they can’t even spell my name correctly? There’s a second H in Schlichter,...

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Kurt Schlichter

What’s TIME’s Deal?

What’s TIME’s Deal?

Why is TIME magazine working so hard to convince you that young people aren't returning to church? Gallup’s latest numbers show attendance at...

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Kevin McCullough

How William F. Buckley Jr. Would View Trump and MAGA

How William F. Buckley Jr. Would View Trump and MAGA

Elitist, establishment Republicans like to throw the late William F. Buckley Jr.’s name around as someone who allegedly would not approve of...

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Rachel Alexander

Big Brother Loves Flock Cameras

Big Brother Loves Flock Cameras

In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the privacy of American citizens has been seriously compromised. To “keep Americans safe,” the...

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Jeff Crouere

The DC Circuit Just Gave Undercover Journalism a Lifeline, Not a Blank Check

The DC Circuit Just Gave Undercover Journalism a Lifeline, Not a Blank Check

On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit threw out a 10-year-old lawsuit against James O'Keefe and Project Veritas,...

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Jay Rogers

The Gospel of Envy

The Gospel of Envy

"The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."...

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Allen West

Anti-Tribute to Milo Yiannopoulos

Anti-Tribute to Milo Yiannopoulos

"And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges." William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act V, Scene 1 Milo Yiannopoulos, the Gamergate...

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Arthur Schaper

What Would They Do Without Jews to Blame?

What Would They Do Without Jews to Blame?

Maybe take personal responsibility? If you waste enough of your life on the internet, you can learn a lot of news you can use. According to Tucker...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Enes Kanter Freedom Needs to Calm Down

Enes Kanter Freedom Needs to Calm Down

Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White need to calm down. Take a breath, step away for a moment, go sit in the car. Maybe throw some ice cubes into a...

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Stephen L. Miller

Republicans Better Realize That Texas Could Easily Go Blue

Republicans Better Realize That Texas Could Easily Go Blue

Republicans look at the polling in Texas and dismiss it pretty quickly. The idea that someone like James TalaWeirdo could win the “deep red Texas”...

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Derek Hunter

Republicans Are Being Shockingly Smart on Data Centers

Republicans Are Being Shockingly Smart on Data Centers

The whole data center imbroglio is one of those weird situations where you have valid arguments on all sides, there’s an obvious solution, and many...

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Kurt Schlichter

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Benjamin Franklin’s warning has echoed across nearly 250 years of American history. Asked what kind of government the Constitutional Convention...

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Scott Walter

25 Years Later, They Already Forgot

25 Years Later, They Already Forgot

September 11 isn’t supposed to be a normal day on the calendar. And certainly not in New York. Nearly 3,000 people were murdered that morning....

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Kevin McCullough

AI Can Find the Vulnerabilities. Now Somebody Has to Fix Them.

AI Can Find the Vulnerabilities. Now Somebody Has to Fix Them.

Cybersecurity has developed an interesting new problem. We are getting better at finding holes in software, but that does not necessarily mean we are...

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Julio Rivera

When 87 Percent Isn't Enough

When 87 Percent Isn't Enough

On Wednesday, a judge in Annapolis handed Maryland Democrats a rare loss in a year when they usually get whatever they draw up. Democrats already hold...

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Jay Rogers

The Endless Inspiration of Dolly Parton

The Endless Inspiration of Dolly Parton

"In a world of Jolenes, be a Dolly" is a phrase you can buy on a plaque for your wall, a sticker for your water bottle, or a mini-sandwich...

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Kathryn Lopez

Eight US Presidents and the Maniacal Republic of Iran

Eight US Presidents and the Maniacal Republic of Iran

Today, most American adults alive in 1979 remember the Iranian Revolution, which triggered a series of events including the taking of American...

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Jeff Davidson

The Inscrutability of Israeli Politics

The Inscrutability of Israeli Politics

Israelis head to the polls, and they really head to the political poles. For many years I lived in Israel on work visas. My wife working at the...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

A Quick Bible Study Vol. 335: What the New Testament Gospels Say About Earthquakes

A Quick Bible Study Vol. 335: What the New Testament Gospels Say About Earthquakes

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are available here. The first 56 volumes are compiled in the book "Bible Study For...

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Myra Kahn Adams

Opposing Democrats Is a Literal Matter of Life and Death

Opposing Democrats Is a Literal Matter of Life and Death

Every election season (and election seasons are getting longer and longer), we hear from Democrats about just how wonderful Medicare, the health...

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Derek Hunter

How Dare You – Doom Pixie and Your Political Pals!

How Dare You – Doom Pixie and Your Political Pals!

Who gave you the right to deprive us of our living standards, aspirations and loved ones? Who gave you the right to deprive us of our living...

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Paul Driessen

The Link Between Trans-Ideology and Violence

The Link Between Trans-Ideology and Violence

Academic research sometimes reveals new and interesting things. Other times, it validates what many of us have long known or suspected. Recall the...

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Scott Hogenson

The Emerald City Is Losing Its Shine

The Emerald City Is Losing Its Shine

Some things never seem to change. The Mercatus Institute recently released a study about American moving trends, and the overall gist isn’t...

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Brett Decker

The White House Is Showing That Lower Gas Prices Can Fuel Our Midterm Wins

The White House Is Showing That Lower Gas Prices Can Fuel Our Midterm Wins

As planet Earth goes through the growing pains of de-globalization, re-globalization, or whatever we call it, one thing is simple: whoever controls...

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Jared Whitley

Don’t Let Them Blame Data Centers for Their Green Energy Failure

Don’t Let Them Blame Data Centers for Their Green Energy Failure

Don’t Let Them Blame Data Centers for Their Green Energy Failure When a wildfire erupts, the left has an explanation ready before the first fire...

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Larry Behrens

The Trump Administration Restores the Gun-Defense Data the Biden CDC Buried

The Trump Administration Restores the Gun-Defense Data the Biden CDC Buried

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has restored information on defensive gun use that it removed from its website in 2022 after...

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John R. Lott

Empires Fall Because Their People Have No Clue It’s Happening

Empires Fall Because Their People Have No Clue It’s Happening

Most people don't want to see the country they live in fall to pieces around them. They understand that such would probably have negative...

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Mark Lewis

Abdul El-Sayed's Abortion Industry Ties Face Scrutiny

Abdul El-Sayed's Abortion Industry Ties Face Scrutiny

Michigan's new leftist Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, doesn't want to be called a socialist. But his agenda tells a different story. He...

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Jordan Sekulow

Why Are They the Way They Are?

Why Are They the Way They Are?

I’ve been there. I like Canadians. I even like poutine. And Tim Hortons has rescued me on more than one occasion. So explain something to me. Why...

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Kevin McCullough

States Can Help Nip Socialism in the Bud

States Can Help Nip Socialism in the Bud

Although efforts have been made to nationalize education policy in recent years, states still retain ample purview over education policy, particularly...

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Chris Talgo

Socialism: The Greatest Rebrand in Political History

Socialism: The Greatest Rebrand in Political History

The strangest political comeback of my generation isn’t by any one politician, but an ideology many politicians are using to win. The Democratic...

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Shabbos Kestenbaum

Our Broken Trust

Our Broken Trust

In April of 2020, San Clemente, CA, dumped 37 tons of sand into a skate park to keep teenagers out. Down the coast, deputies arrested a man for...

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Erick Erickson

Fauci Journals: What Took So Long?

Fauci Journals: What Took So Long?

A lot has been made of Dr. Anthony Fauci's journals over the last couple of weeks. And rightfully so. The journals show the factors he considered...

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Curtis Schube

Democrats Try to Brush Aside 'Woke 1'

Democrats Try to Brush Aside 'Woke 1'

"'Woke 1' was crazy." So said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on ABC News' "This Week" earlier this month. ...

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Michael Barone

All a Bunch of Cheats

All a Bunch of Cheats

Cheating as a way of life. We are surrounded by cheating, some legal and some otherwise. Baseball has become boring without spitballs and corked bats....

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Clarence Thomas Played the Long Game. He Won.

Clarence Thomas Played the Long Game. He Won.

An important new book by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), "Going Further," calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living...

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Josh Hammer

Were the Bombs of August 1945 'Demonic'?

Were the Bombs of August 1945 'Demonic'?

Did demons create the first atomic bombs? Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs,...

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Victor Davis Hanson

Guess What the Left Is Blaming for the Fatal Flooding in Nepal

Guess What the Left Is Blaming for the Fatal Flooding in Nepal

Kurt Schlichter is back for another episode of "Stream of Kurtiousness!" Become a VIP member today to get exclusive access to...

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Kurt Schlichter

Women Have Never Been More Ideologically Isolated, and It's Costing Two Generations

Women Have Never Been More Ideologically Isolated, and It's Costing Two Generations

Last week outside a Massachusetts courthouse, roughly 400 people, most of them women dressed in pink, rallied in support of a mother on trial for...

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Jay Rogers

No Flocking Way

No Flocking Way

It seems that Flock cameras have sparked another debate that feels a whole lot like the fight over data centers. And while Flock cameras are not...

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Ashley Evdokimo

The DSA Civil War Being Fought on Wikipedia

The DSA Civil War Being Fought on Wikipedia

On July 11, a Wikipedia page was created for the National Political Committee (NPC), the governing body of the Democratic Socialists of America. The...

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Théodore Cazals

Hasan Piker to Dems: Don't Quit Me

Hasan Piker to Dems: Don't Quit Me

Hasan Piker, two weeks ago, delivered this message: "Democrats, listen to me, I know we don't always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but...

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Larry Elder

It's a Package Deal

It's a Package Deal

Some people are the best at what they do but are total jerks as people. Fugu, or pufferfish, is not kosher. That’s good news for me. As it is not...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Pessimism Leads to Defeat

Pessimism Leads to Defeat

If you have been paying attention to media reports, many politicians, including some Republicans and those often-wrong pollsters, believe the November...

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Cal Thomas

Advantages and Disadvantages in the Coming Midterm Elections

Advantages and Disadvantages in the Coming Midterm Elections

The Republicans face a lot of obstacles in this year's midterm elections. History is against them; the president's party usually loses...

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Mark Lewis

Here's The Problem With Calling Katie’s Death Just a DUI

Here's The Problem With Calling Katie’s Death Just a DUI

Calling Katie’s death “just a DUI” is more than technically convenient. It is an act of absolution. A DUI happens every day. The driver made a...

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Joe Abraham

The FDA Needs Better Leadership, Not Patronage

The FDA Needs Better Leadership, Not Patronage

It’s probably not very often, if ever, that a Republican nomination to head a federal agency is compared to a Democratic mayor’s race in...

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Derek Hunter

It’s Always Cute When Canada Thinks It Matters

It’s Always Cute When Canada Thinks It Matters

Just what the hell are the Canadians thinking? Do they think that if they cry enough, America’s going to roll over? We’re now in another trade war...

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Kurt Schlichter

The Day Dolly Parton Came This-Close to Hosting a WLS/Chicago Talk Show

The Day Dolly Parton Came This-Close to Hosting a WLS/Chicago Talk Show

Dolly Parton’s death on Tuesday has touched off a national emotional tidal wave across America and around the world. Unlike anything in recent...

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Tom Tradup

An Angel Walked Among Us

An Angel Walked Among Us

Dolly Parton died Tuesday in Nashville at 80. And somehow even writing that sentence feels wrong. Dolly was one of those people who seemed like she...

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Kevin McCullough